Button



No. 625,|87. Patented May l6, I899.

W. I. MIZNER.

BUTTON.

(Application filed June as,' 1898 (N 0 M 0 do I [Miznag NITE STATES PATENT OFFICE "WALTER I. MIZNEE, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,187, dated May 16, 1899.

Application filed June 28, 1898. Serial No. 684,666. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER I. MIZNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the class of cuff or collar buttons which are provided with a movable part adapted to facilitate their insertion through buttonholes; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of the movable part or shoe in connection with the head of the button, all as more fully hereinafter described,and shown in the drawings,in which Figures 1 and 2 are elevations taken in planes at right angles to each other. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section in a plane parallel to Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is a plan of Fig.1. Fig. 5 is a detached plan of the front plate of the head. Fig. 6 is a cross-section of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan of the back plate of the head and of the shank formedthereon. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a detached elevation of the shoe and its stem. Fig. 10 is a detached plan of the locking-disk secured to the end of the stem. Fig. 11 is a detached elevation of the spring inclosed in the head of the button.

A is the head of the button, B is the shank, and O is the rotatorily-lnovable shoe. The head is composed of a front plateau and a back plate I), united together to form between them a chamber 0. formed integrally with or otherwise united to the back plate b. It is formed flat, conformable in cross-section to the normal slope and size of a buttonhole and has a central bore d to receive the stem of the shoe. The shoe 0 is of corresponding cross-section with the shank B and is preferably corrugated or creased upon the outside, as shown. It is attached to the stem 0, which extends through the bore (Z in the shank B into the chamber '0, and carries at its lower end a disk f, which bears against the front plate a of the head by the tension of a spring g, interposed between the The shank B of the button is disk and the back plate. The disk is provided with holes 72, and corresponding therewith the front plate is formed or provided with registering lugs or protuberances 1', adapted to engage into the holes h of the disk.

The parts being constructed and arranged as shown and described, it Will be readily understood that its operation as a collar-button, &c., depends on the ability of the shoe 0 to be readily turned into a position crosswise the shank of the button after engaging it into the buttonhole's, which operation is greatly facilitated by the shoe forming a complementary extension of the shank when registering therewith. In either position of the shoe the latter is prevented from turning accidentally by the spurs or projections 1' engaging into the holes h of the disk, and it will be seen that the shoe turns either to the right or left.

The whole device may be readily and cheaply formed by stamping and shaping the parts between dies, and the parts may be readily secured together by forming the front plate as shown in Fig. 6 and securing the back plate to it by bending over the outer flange.

What'I claim as my invention is- In a button of the kind described, the com bination of the head comprising the front and back plates secured together and forming a chamber between them, a shank secured to the back plate provided with a central bore, a shoe of corresponding cross-section with the shank, a stem secured to said shoe and extending through the shank into the chamber, a disk secured to the lower end of the stem and provided with holes, aspring inclosed in the chamber between the back plate and thedisk and pressing the disk into contact with the front plate, and lugs on the back of the front plate adapted to register with the holes in the disk.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER I. MIZNER.

Witnesses:

ADOLPH BARTHEL, OTTO F. BARTHEL. 

